Data & AI

ETL success depends on reliable data connectivity. As organizations work with more cloud, on-premises, and API-based data sources, modern connectivity helps simplify integration, improve performance, strengthen security, and accelerate analytics and AI initiatives. The right connectivity foundation enables teams to access and use data more efficiently across the enterprise.

Test how your RAG system handles vague, misspelled, random and generally human questions before adding it to your production site. Here’s how.

Progress DataDirect acts as a universal connectivity layer that makes enterprise data easier to access, integrate, and use, helping organizations reduce integration complexity while improving analytics, visibility, and decision-making.

Introducing the Smart Agent, a new capability in Progress Agentic RAG that breaks complex questions into sub-questions, decides where to look for each one, and keeps searching until the answer is complete. It works on existing setups with no new pipeline or re-indexing. The blog highlights two additions: live data from business apps like Zendesk, Salesforce and ServiceNow through MCP, and a built-in web search tool backed by Perplexity and Google Gemini. Both are cited alongside internal content in a single answer.